Thanks Luke and Alex!
Celebrating the conclusion of Luke and Alex’s successful rotations. Both are PhD candidates from the Weill Cornell BCMB Allied Program.
Post Holiday Gathering 2023
The Diver lab gathered on this rainy winter day for a post holiday gathering with wonderful Persian food. Happy to be able to spend some time with our rotating graduate students (Allen Lu - MD/PhD), Luke Cohen-Abeles (Weill Cornell BCMB), and Alex Earsley (Weill Cornell BCMB).
Summer Gathering - Mini-golf
Great time today playing mini-golf on Pier 25 with the Hite lab. Also, enjoyed a great lunch afterwards at Bubby’s - delicious pancakes.
Kate Presents Her Findings from this Summer
Congratulations to all the undergraduates who conducted research at MSKCC this summer!
Congratulations Omar!
Today is Omar’s last day in the Diver lab! Thank you for being the first Diver lab member. We wish you all the best as you transition to Medical School.
Welcome Maddy Yaggi
Maddy is an incoming PhD candidate from the Physiology, Biophysics, and Systems Biology (PBSB) program at Weill Cornell. She’ll be rotating in the Diver lab this summer.
Kate Enquist Arrives from Vasser for a Summer of Science
Kate joins us via the 10-week MSK Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP).
Great Seminar and Interactions with Dr. Liz Kellogg
Today, we hosted Liz Kellogg from Cornell University who spoke about the Molecular Mechanisms of Programmable Transposons. Wonderful visit! Great science!
NY Area Cryo-EM Meeting
Amazing interaction and discussions at today’s NY Area Cryo-EM Meeting held at Rockefeller University.
Dr. Candice Paulsen Introduces Us to the Pain Receptor TRPA1
Candie and were Postdoctoral Fellows together in Dr. David Julius’ lab at UCSF. She now runs a lab at Yale. Wonderful that she could join us as today’s Molecular Biophysics Training Program (MBTP) seminar speaker.
Interacting with MSKView Participants Today via the Faculty Panel
Learn more about MSKView: A Diversity Recruitment Event for MSK Scientific Laboratories here:
https://www.mskcc.org/event/mskview-one-day-symposium-about-diversity-and-inclusion-research-msk
Weill Cornell’s Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition
I had the honor of judging this year’s 3MT completion. Strong showing by Structural Biologists Viktor Belay (Hite lab at SKI) and David van Dongen (Long lab at SKI).
Excited to Have Qinyu Zhu Join Us
Our courageous first Postdoctoral Fellow. Looking forward to doing some great science together.
BCMB Allied Program Retreat
So excited to be returning to Mohonk for another BCMB Allied Program Retreat - this time as faculty! Photo above is from my first retreat as a graduate student.
Tri-Institutional PhD Program in Chemical Biology (TPCB) Symposium
Happy to have the opportunity to hear about some of the great science going on in the Tri-I as a poster judge at today’s symposium.
Women Leading CryoEM NYC Retreat
The labs of Drs. Gira Bhaba, Bridget Carragher, Josefina del Marmol, Pilar Cossio, Sonya Hanson, Mimi Ho, Ellen Zhong joined today at the Flatiron Institute.
Gerstner Sloan Kettering (GSK) Graduate Student Retreat
Thank you for the invitation to join you at the beautiful Mohonk Mountain House in New Paltz, NY! I enjoyed hearing about the wonderful discoveries of our graduate students and sharing my work.
Why We Chose the Sloan Kettering Institute
Hear from new faculty, including Assistant Professor Melinda Diver, about what makes the Sloan Kettering Institute an outstanding place to do fundamental biomedical research.
www.mskcc.org/annual-report/2021/why-we-chose-sloan-kettering-institute